I went to Catholic schools my entire life and never had anything close to a cis heterosexual sexual education let alone a queer one. Everything I learned was trial and error or the Internet or 'Talk Sex with Sue Johanson.'
The news can by very cyclical. The same issues are coming up over and over and over again.
You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.
My favorite topical tweets are the ones that put a tweet in context so it illuminates a deeper truth or societal trend.
I definitely post a lot of memes and content that's isolated to Twitter that I wouldn't be able to do on stage because a live crowd doesn't have that same frame of reference.
For memes, I have an entire iPhone folder of photos that I've taken or saved because I find something about them hilarious.
Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.
I go through my tweets while writing and be like, ‘Oh, this has staying power and is still relevant.'
Whatever I'm writing has seemed to be about something I don't feel I could freely express in my everyday life, and stand-up is a really effective medium for getting people to hear exactly the things and viewpoints that they normally don't want listen to.
Living and performing in New York has allowed me to try my weirder and more experimental things.
